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Zapolska, Gabriela (1857 - 1921)

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Short name Zapolska, Gabriela
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/36937720
First name Gabriela
Birth name Zapolska
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Alternative name Józef Maskoff — Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska
Date of birth 1857
Date of death 1921
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Sex Female
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Lived in Poland , Ukraine
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Zapolska, Gabriela was ...
related to Przybyszewska, Dagny Juel
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Circulations of Zapolska, Gabriela, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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Poljska književnost Polish Literature Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1900 -
"Bøger - Kunst". Gabriela Zapolska "Books - Art". G.Z. Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1903 -
Dvajset let poljske književnosti Twenty years of Polish literature Hajek, Andrej 1903 -
Iz poljske literature From the Polish Literature Zbašnik, Fran 1903 -
Nova poljska dramatska dela New Polish Drama Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1905 -
Dnevne vesti Daily News Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1910 -
Drama Drama Wester, Josip 1910 -
Razne stvari (Pisateljica branjevka) Various Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1915 comments on person
Poljsko pripovedništvo Grivec, Franc 1917 comments on person
Listek - Narodno gledališče Feuilleton - The National Theater Vrtovec, Vekoslav 1918 comments on person
Narodno gledališče (Poljski večer) The National Theater (The Polish Evening) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1918 -
Narodno gledališče v Ljubljani začne z dramsko sezono Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1918 -
Unknown creator, portrait of Gabriela Zapolska, circa 1885, Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie. None is portrait of

MENTIONED IN:
- Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 861.
- A History of Central European Women's Writing, 2001.

NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature

She wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 252 works of journalism, one film script. Translated into German, Czech and English.

The morality of Mrs. Dulska: a petty-bourgeois tragic-farce; translated and introduced by Teresa Murjas, Bristol, UK Chicago, USA: Intellect 2007

Zapolska's women: three plays: Malka Szwarcenkopf, The man and Miss Maliczewska / translated and introduced by Teresa Murjas. Bristol, UK Chicago, USA: Intellect 2009

see:
Podeschwik, Manfred. Studien zum novellistischen Schaffen von Gabriela Zapolska, Witterschlick b. Bonn,1969

Expert: Dr Teresa Murjas, University of Reading

The libretto of Franz Lehar's operetta in Der Zarewitsch is based on her novel Carewicz.

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